Day 1 had buzz.
Day 2 had a weekend.
Day 3?
The wind quietly slipped out of the sails.
Arya's bilingual political thriller 'Ananthan Kaadu' was supposed to ride the Saturday wave.
Instead, it slid.
📉 Day 3 collection: just ₹41 lakhs.
That's a sharp 31.7% drop from Friday's ₹60 lakhs.
Here's where the numbers stand after the opening weekend:
Not the kind of math a bilingual political thriller hopes for on a Saturday.
Mornings were ghost towns.
Malayalam morning shows: 5.33% occupancy.
But by night, things flickered to life — 19.75% for Malayalam, 15.33% for Tamil.
People are showing up… just not before sunset.
On paper, this film had everything.
Arya in the lead. Regina Cassandra, Nikhila Vimal, Indrans, Vijayaraghavan, Dev Mohan in support.
Written by Murali Gopy. Directed by Jiyen Krishnakumar.
A political action thriller draped in power struggles and social conflict.
The ingredients of a banger.
The result? A slow simmer.
Reviewers pointed at the same thing again and again — too much script, not enough soul.
One review famously joked that Murali Gopy swallowed an encyclopedia and we're paying the price.
The complaints stacked up fast:
The emotional weight of the revenge arc? Lost in the noise.
This is the Arya comeback to Malayalam cinema after six years since Pathinettam Padi.
A big swing. A bilingual gamble. A star, a celebrated writer, a loaded cast.
And yet, ₹1.66 crore in three days tells you something modern audiences keep proving again and again:
Star power gets you the opening.
Word of mouth decides the rest.
And right now, the word on Ananthan Kaadu is travelling… in the wrong direction.
That's all for now!
